IDF Raids Gaza Hospital Doubling as Hamas Base; Captures 240 Terrorists, Including 15 October 7 Perpetrators
IDF: Terrorists “attempted to pose as patients or flee using ambulances.”
Amid the ongoing counter-terrorism operation in northern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted a two-day raid on a ‘hospital’ doubling as a key Hamas command center in the area. The military arrested over 240 terrorists, including 15 who took part in the October 7 massacre.
Terrorists rounded up from the Hamas-infested hospital “included members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), as well as 15 individuals implicated in the October 7 attacks on Israel,” the Israeli news website YNET reported Friday.
Some of the terrorists tried to avoid capture by posing as patients or using ambulances for their escape. “During the operation in the area, over 240 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists and other operatives suspected of terror activities were apprehended, some of whom attempted to pose as patients or flee using ambulances,” the IDF said in a statement Friday.
“Among the suspects taken for questioning was the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, who is suspected of being a Hamas terrorist operative, as well as Hamas engineering and anti-tank missile operatives, and approximately 15 terrorists who infiltrated Israel during the October 7th Massacre,” the military added.
Some of the Hamas weapons found in Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza.
Do these look like regular medical supplies to you? pic.twitter.com/rf8zTIKt8V
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) December 28, 2024
The Hamas-controlled hospital was aptly named after Palestinian terrorist Kamal Adwan, a mastermind of the Black September Organization responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre. According to the IDF statement, Hamas was “using the Kamal Adwan Hospital as a command center for its military operations in Jabaliya,” a terrorist stronghold in northern Gaza.
The operation was led by IDF’s Shayetet 13, also referred to as Israel’s Navy SEALs. They neutralized several terrorists and uncovered explosives and heavy weaponry from the supposed medical facility. “Shayetet 13 special forces conducted precise activities inside the hospital and located and confiscated weapons in the area, including grenades, guns, munitions, and military equipment,” the military disclosed. “During IDF operations next to the hospital, terrorists fired anti-tank missiles and RPGs at the troops and attempted to carry out additional attacks against the troops.”
📍𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽: 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹
• 240+ Hamas, Islamic Jihad terrorists and other operatives suspected of terrorist activities were apprehended, some of whom attempted to pose as… pic.twitter.com/2oOCbeAsyQ
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 28, 2024
IDF evacuates patients and hospital staff, delivers fuel and medical supplies
While Hamas placed civilians in harm’s way by setting up its key operations base inside the hospital, the IDF evacuated the facility and delivered fuel and medical supplies as part of the operation.
“Prior to the beginning of the targeted operation, 350 patients, as well as caregivers and medical personnel, were evacuated from the Kamal Adwan Hospital,” the IDF assured. “Tens of thousands of liters of fuel, food, and medical supplies for the essential functioning of the hospital were also delivered to the Kamal Adwan Hospital over this period.”
“During the course of the targeted operation, an additional 95 patients, caregivers, and medical personnel were evacuated to” another hospital and were supplied with “5,000 liters of fuel, two generators, and medical equipment were delivered,” the military added.
Despite Israeli soldiers risking their lives to protect Gaza civilians, the mainstream media ran with Hamas’ narrative, portraying the IDF operation as an ‘attack’ on the hospital. This is not the first time big media outlets have sided with Hamas terrorists during the ongoing conflict. In March 2024, media cried foul when Israeli special forces raided the Hamas operations base in Gaza’s Shifa hospital, which led to the capture of hundreds of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists.
When we say that @guardian @ObserverUK is effectively pro-Hamas, we're referring to articles like this:
A baseless allegation that Israel 'attacked' a Gaza hospital is framed as a fact.
Israeli evidence that the hospital was being used as a base of operations by hundreds of… pic.twitter.com/TQTrfpQRPR
— CAMERA UK (@CAMERAorgUK) December 29, 2024
The use of hospitals, schools, and other public buildings as bases for terrorist operations is a deliberate strategy deployed by Hamas.
“The large number of terrorists found near this key medical facility once again illustrates how Hamas has used hospitals as part of its plan to continue to control Gaza. This is now just a coincidence,” Israeli defense analyst Seth J. Frantzman wrote in the Jerusalem Post Sunday. “Hamas also used the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and other medical facilities. Hamas views hospitals and schools as key elements in its command and control of Gaza.”
A Palestinian news outlet reportedly identified Kamal Adwan hospital as a Hamas ‘military’ facility, referring to its director by his ‘army rank’ — suggesting its formal induction into Gaza-based terrorist infrastructure:
Translation of the first two paragraphs of this article in the Palestinian Donia al-Watan news site, which acknowledges Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's rank in Hamas:
"The Directorate of Military Medical Services organized a series of scientific lectures on Wednesday morning for… https://t.co/I65K6Gub3l pic.twitter.com/vYXFIsQGmJ
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) December 29, 2024
Hamas returned to the hospital despite previous IDF operations to flush terrorists out the facility, The Times of Israel reported:
The Israel Defense Forces, which last operated against Hamas at Kamal Adwan in October, said the operation was launched because the hospital had “once again become a key stronghold for terrorist organizations and continues to be used as a hideout for terrorist operatives.”
The army said the hospital was still used by Hamas “despite repeated calls to refrain from allowing [terror operatives] to exploit hospitals for military activities.”
The operation was led by the IDF’s 162nd Division. At the start of the raid, the IDF said troops of the 401st Armored Brigade surrounded the hospital, detained several terror operatives, and killed additional gunmen. (…)
Among those detained was the director of Kamal Adwan, Hussam Abu Safiya, who the IDF said is suspected of being a Hamas operative. (…)
At least 15 of those arrested at the hospital and the surrounding area participated in the October 7 onslaught, according to the military. Several members of Hamas’s engineering and anti-tank forces were also arrested in the operation.
The suspects were questioned by field interrogators from the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 and the Shin Bet security agency. The IDF said many admitted to interrogators that they had participated in “terror activity” in the hospital area.
240 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters were apprehended by the IDF in a hospital in northern Gaza; all while evacuating staff to prevent civilian casualties.
Let’s take a look at some headlines that covered the incident: pic.twitter.com/OtKkM5NzHZ
— Yoni Michanie (@YoniMichanie) December 28, 2024
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Yu go, boyZ. 👍
Good. Now immediately execute the fifteen Oct. 7th perpetrators for crimes against humanity and inform Hamas that unless the remaining hostages are released and the corpses of each dead hostage are returned or are accounted for one terrorist will be executed per day for the next 240 days until that occurs.
Of course, Israel will never do something like that.
Has any one anywhere
– condemned use of a hospital by hamas combatants
– condemned use of arab human shields by hamas arab combatants
The western press, and the western “intelligentsia” seems unable unwilling to think of the hamasniks as anything other than a bunch of naughty unruly boy scouts .
What continues to amaze me is this: The western media and supporters refuse to think that if THEY came in contact with any of the Iranian sponsored groups that they would be spared. Really?
Who can trust whom?
Western urinalists would be thrilled to be captured and martyred by Palestinians. They’d see it as their fullest sacrifice for Jew-Hate.
Most of the captured Hamas members were found wearing Hefty bags and hiding in the Ob-Gyn department.
Sad that not one hostage was found
Deeply concerning.
To think there are actually human rights pretenders that enable the noble cause against Israel like no other, on behalf of forces that recognize no human rights. Thank you for the lectures.
The witless, stupid and morally bankrupt European, leftist dhimmis and American Dhimmi-crats have no opprobrium to spare over the hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign aid money that the Islamofascist/terrorist Hamas regime has squandered on weapons, materiel and terrorist infrastructure with which to wage Islamic “holy war” against Israeli Jews.
More than one year after the IDF entered Gaza to root out the Hamas thugs and to destroy their tunnels, terrorists and infrastructure are still being found and neutralized. That’s how pervasively corrupt and evil this regime and its animating culture/ideology of “Submission” are.
Isn’t this the third time the hospital has been cleaned out?
Kewl!
Using hospitals as human shields is a very sacred custom of Pope Francis the Red Guard.
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